Eksempler på bequest

• At age 6 nobody receives any bequests because the parent is at age 11 and is going to die for certain.

• Higher persistence is associated with larger (absolute) tax elasticities, even if the model allows for altruistic bequests.

• This is valid in the case where the couple's motivations for leaving a bequest are altruistic.

• But this is not clear since younger individuals who receive bequests would have a lower demand for precautionary saving.

• Here we consider exclusively the utility deriving from possible bequests once death has occurred.

• A longer life span yields smaller unintentional bequests and thus lowers the level of the young agents' wealth.

• Agents differ in age, ability, earnings shocks, and inherited bequests.

• As new medical technologies sent expenses on an upward spiral, small provincial hospitals, largely funded by small private bequests, could not keep up.

• So how do people view assets in later life, particularly in relation to the issue of bequests?

• In this case, the wealth of members of a dynasty at any instant can be interpreted as a bequest from preceding generations.

• There is no bequest motive, labor supply is assumed to be exogenous and the individual is not permitted to borrow either stocks or bonds.

• The core of the parish holding was an ancient bequest of 1618, but additional land was added in 1701, 1718, 1722, and 1727.

• This implies that the levels of accidental bequests received by young agents in the short run are different from the long-run ones.

• Other models are life cycle, intergenerational with retirement, uncertain lifetimes, accidental and deliberate bequests, as well as mixtures of these.

• It is more difficult to measure the size of intended bequests relative to that of purely accidental ones, due to uncertainty about the life span.